Personality and emotional memory: How regulating emotion impairs memory for emotional events

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 631-651

  Richards, Jane M ^a   Gross, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Coping; Distraction; Emotion; Intensity; Memory; Personality; Regulation; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748573620     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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